The MindShare Top 50
College Football Week 0 takes No. 1 at 24.2, and the Little League World Series is second at 24.2: a photo finish between two sets of amateurs. The season opened in Dublin with 4.9 million on ESPN for TCU–North Carolina, the biggest Week 0 opener yet, and four more national windows behind it, including The CW’s largest college football audience ever for Florida State. Williamsport answered with seven measured windows across the week, capped by 2.9 million on ABC for Curaçao’s title on Sunday, the tournament’s most-watched year since 2015. Summed under the live-event rules they land at an est. 39.8M attention-hours each, seventy thousand raw points apart. Football wins on the decimal, and honestly the story is that both beat every premiere, newscast and podcast in the last week of summer.
Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, and the week is hers everywhere the chart can see. Five network tributes in six days, from ABC’s 20/20 special that night to Sunday’s airing of 9 to 5, the most-watched film on broadcast television in almost four years, enter as one entry at No. 4 (20.2). Her catalog put four songs into the Spotify Top 200 with three days of the chart week left, 15.4 million streams that miss the fifty on hours alone, and lifted Jolene to No. 16 on the Hot 100. Elsewhere Netflix owns the premieres: Death of the Pastor’s Wife debuts at No. 3 (21.3) as the week’s most-watched series, Beauty in Black’s third season at No. 8, and Rockstar’s extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI at No. 9: a game trailer was the week’s most-watched Netflix film. Jelly Roll’s guest week keeps Kimmel on the chart at No. 25 as the only late-night original in the last week of summer, Jeopardy! Masters enters at No. 20 on four nightly premieres, and last week’s No. 1, NFL preseason, slips to No. 12 in its final week. Spider-Man falls off the chart from No. 19: still No. 1 at the box office at $22.5 million, but week six of a run is scored as week six. Coyote vs. Acme opened to a sweet $15.9 million and an A CinemaScore and sits just outside the fifty, the theatrical gap this chart has flagged before.
One reading note. Live-event figures are per-window Nielsen sums, each window capped at three hours, and estimates are labelled as estimates. Anything without a published US number does not chart: this week that includes Friday’s Fever game, Saturday’s TOUR Championship round and Prime Video’s preseason game.
Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, and the week is hers everywhere the chart can see. Five network tributes in six days, from ABC’s 20/20 special that night to Sunday’s airing of 9 to 5, the most-watched film on broadcast television in almost four years, enter as one entry at No. 4 (20.2). Her catalog put four songs into the Spotify Top 200 with three days of the chart week left, 15.4 million streams that miss the fifty on hours alone, and lifted Jolene to No. 16 on the Hot 100. Elsewhere Netflix owns the premieres: Death of the Pastor’s Wife debuts at No. 3 (21.3) as the week’s most-watched series, Beauty in Black’s third season at No. 8, and Rockstar’s extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI at No. 9: a game trailer was the week’s most-watched Netflix film. Jelly Roll’s guest week keeps Kimmel on the chart at No. 25 as the only late-night original in the last week of summer, Jeopardy! Masters enters at No. 20 on four nightly premieres, and last week’s No. 1, NFL preseason, slips to No. 12 in its final week. Spider-Man falls off the chart from No. 19: still No. 1 at the box office at $22.5 million, but week six of a run is scored as week six. Coyote vs. Acme opened to a sweet $15.9 million and an A CinemaScore and sits just outside the fifty, the theatrical gap this chart has flagged before.
One reading note. Live-event figures are per-window Nielsen sums, each window capped at three hours, and estimates are labelled as estimates. Anything without a published US number does not chart: this week that includes Friday’s Fever game, Saturday’s TOUR Championship round and Prime Video’s preseason game.